ABC 90th Anniversary… Before social media, there was Tim Bowden’s ‘Backchat’ 14/05/202216/05/2022 He’s been called ‘a cuddly koala’, ‘a supercilious clot’, and lots else besides. In this latest story in our series celebrating ABC’s 90th Anniversary, veteran broadcaster Tim Bowden looks back…
ABC Funding… ABC Support of the Arts 02/05/202209/05/2022 Australian viewers love Australian stories. The ABC has a proud record of broadcasting the finest Australian drama. But with shrinking funding, the number of hours of new Australian drama on…
ABC Funding… campaign video: triple J unearthed 27/04/202209/05/2022 Ann Chesterman warns that without adequate ABC funding, this extraordinary service to Australian music is at risk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q91rQz7aLs
ABC 90th Anniversary… Taim Bilong Tim part 2 24/03/202213/04/2022 In the 1980s Tim Bowden produced many of ABC Radio’s most outstanding audio documentaries. They were forerunners of today’s podcast genre, and led the way in oral history documentary-making in…
ABC 90th Anniversary… Through Flood and Tempest: remembering cyclone tracy 16/03/202224/03/2022 Over the last month much of the east coast of Australia has been devastated by flooding, among the worst in living memory. We’ve seen stories of extraordinary efforts to evacuate…
ABC 90th Anniversary… Taim Bilong Tim 14/03/202224/03/2022 Long before podcast documentaries, ABC Radio pioneered the audio documentary genre with countless programs and series produced over several decades. Some of the most outstanding of these documentaries were made…
ABC 90th Anniversary… Once an Argonaut, Always an Argonaut 21/02/202212/09/2022 Between 1941 and 1972 The Argonauts Club was one of ABC Radio’s most successful children’s programs. In 1956 it was attracting 10,000 new members a year. Many went on to…
ABC 90th Anniversary… How terrorism in Munich led to ABC’s first ‘live’ report 25/01/202201/02/2022 In the early hours of 5th September 1972, the Munich Olympic Games were rocked by a terrorist attack. Eight terrorists from the Palestinian organisation Black September (BSO) seized members of…
ABC 90th Anniversary… Australian Culture: heard but not seen 18/01/202225/01/2022 There was a time when academics rarely talked about their work to anyone outside of the universities, a time when Australia was so genuflective to Britain and Europe that it…
ABC Funding… ABC now crucial to the survival of local TV production 08/12/202118/01/2022 A new report from Deloitte Access Economics shows that the ABC’s commitment to local drama, documentary and entertainment boosts the Australian economy by hundreds of millions of dollars and has…
